Written By Idoma Television on Sunday, March 6, 2016 | 10:28:00 AM

There
is no tenable excuse for any state government to owe its workers their
salaries, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said.

Speaking
yesterday when he paid a working visit to the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in Abuja, Dr Ortom said though
many states have genuine reason for owing their workers, it was wrong
for anyone to capitalize on the reason and not do anything about it.

The
governor said government and other employers should give priority to
workers’ wages and show compassion for them so that their labour must
not be in vain.

“All of us including President Buhari are sad that people worked but
were nor paid. We are not happy about it; and everyone should be
concerned that people work and but not paid because the Bible says a
worker deserves his wages and so it is a priority that must be given
consideration and by the grace of God we will surmount it”, he said.

While
explaining why he visited NITDA, Ortom he was at the information
technology agency to seek ways of developing IT in Benue, which
according to him, is a barren land for ICT. Speaking earlier,
NITDA’s Director General Mr Peter Jack said there are opportunities in
ICT to create a credible alternative to oil and gas in the area of
software development and actual IT solutions.

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